
Do You Ever Fall Asleep While Praying?
The answer to her prayers was right there in the moment of prayer; the gift she needed most was right at hand.
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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The answer to her prayers was right there in the moment of prayer; the gift she needed most was right at hand.

There are a lot of people hurting out there. People who lost their homes, people who don’t have heat. They need our prayers.

This year we celebrate our 25th Annual Thanksgiving Day of Prayer. Discover how this prayer event began.

As they prayed for him, he was on the journey of a lifetime, traveling to the gate of heaven.

Untreated sorrow can do harm, turning into anger, depression, despair. Pray through your sorrows.

Pray for others and your own problems shrink in comparison. Even in the midst of a terrible storm.

I sometimes wonder how to pray through a storm. Of course, I pray for people’s safety…

It feels like praying when you read Scripture—but isn’t it also praying when reading links you to the holiest part of yourself?

I don’t know how he knew that the woman needed prayer right on the spot, but I liked the way he dropped everything to do it.

Sometimes we all need to be reminded of the power of prayer. Just take the case of Daisy, the missing Chihuahua…

The creative life always comes with moments of doubt, even when you’ve offered up prayer after prayer.

Thinking about Anne Lamott’s new book and my own book on prayer, I wondered if there was something both of us were missing…
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